Here begins the first day of A Warrior's Journal. I'll continue these excerpts for the next few days. They are a little long. I'm doing in this in par...
I spoke at a Christian college's chapel in the fall and challenged the students to consider missions. The students there were like many - they unde...
It's 2:00 a.m. as I write this - just back from Seattle and I wanted to kick off the discipling experiment we're starting. I'll be excerpting 9 weeks ...
It's a few minutes past midnight at our home. A low, but shrill scream broke through the stillness from the room above me. It was our youngest child, ...
Happy April Fools Day. At our house growing up, the favorite trick was to switch the salt in the sugar bowl. And our kids love to put a rubber band ar...
I have a love/hate relationship with my privileged status as an American. On the one hand, it's great to have a couple of cars, a house, and stuff tha...
Caveat to this blog - The following never occurred in my family. My family communicated perfectly. Ahem. Ever hear this slice of conversation in yo...
Q: As we seek to create a culture of honesty and vulnerability in our small group, how do we maintain a healthy community when group members monop...
I'm neck-deep in short-term missions - I've been doing them since leaving for Guatemala as a young punk in 1975. These days I have a love-hate relatio...
I was made to start things - it's what I do. So I've been asking God, "How do we help young people live in community and find mentorship?" Something p...
